After my horrible week spent in mattress final week, I used to be lastly in a position to get into the studio yesterday and make some progress. And it felt so good to be again to work! I had initially deliberate on beginning with portray the ceiling, after which working my approach down. However I made a decision to do the alternative. I’m beginning with the ground, after which as soon as it’s finished, I’ll cowl it with protecting paper, after which paint the partitions and ceiling.
I proceed to get feedback and messages from folks urging me to not redo the studio flooring, nevertheless it’s too late. 🙂 It’s already in progress, and it actually wanted to be finished. As I used to be going by means of the containers that had been lining the partitions for years now, and eliminating issues that I now not need, I seen an increasing number of issues with the ground. Issues had leaked by means of the containers and stained the ground in a number of locations. Right here’s an instance. I do not know what this purple stuff is, nevertheless it was on two completely different locations on the ground.
Right here’s the opposite purple stain (possibly ribbon that acquired moist?), however it’s also possible to see how a few of the precise flooring boards had modified shade over time. See how darkish and streaky this had develop into?
I had these darkened boards and areas all around the flooring. I’ve come to study that there’s most likely no option to utterly cover the tannins in crimson oak for the lengthy haul. Sooner or later, regardless of how a lot prep work you do to have these good, lovely, white oak flooring, the tannins within the crimson oak will finally make their option to the highest and darken the end. So after a number of years, the ground was now not vivid and white. It was dingy with brown/amber streaks in locations.
After which over right here to the appropriate of the aspect door is the place I had the two-foot-square space of water injury that I instructed you about. It wasn’t horrible, nevertheless it additionally wasn’t insignificant, and it might have been simply in entrance of the financial institution of cupboards that can go on the wallpapered wall.
In order you’ll be able to see, I’ve began through the use of my hand-held belt sander to sand the ground. I’m concentrating on these stained and broken areas essentially the most, however I’m additionally simply giving the entire flooring a great scuff sanding in order that the primer can have some tooth to seize onto. The topcoat that I used on these flooring remains to be very easy, so I wouldn’t wish to put primer straight on prime of it with out scuffing the floor first.
Along with these areas that had develop into actually darkish and streaky, it’s also possible to see from above how your entire flooring (see the unsanded space in comparison with the sanded space) had simply darkened usually. I don’t know if that’s from the topcoat darkening over time, or if it’s the response of the tanins within the flooring, however your entire flooring is considerably darker than it was after I completed these flooring years in the past.
So hopefully it’s somewhat extra apparent now why I wish to redo the flooring. I do know some would say, “I can’t imagine you’re no more cautious along with your flooring!” However that’s the purpose. It is a studio the place I’ll be utilizing a lot of artwork merchandise — oil paints, acrylic paints, resin, dyes, and many others. — and a studio flooring wants to have the ability to take some abuse. I must have a flooring the place I can drip paints, resin, dyes, and many others., after which when issues get somewhat too uncontrolled for my style, I can have a simple repair to make them look good once more. The apparent resolution in my thoughts was a painted flooring.
The irritating factor about redoing the ground is that I spotted in a short time that I’d solely be capable of do half of the ground at a time. So this will likely be an attention-grabbing course of because it unfolds. Proper now, I’m engaged on this aspect of the room…
Whereas the opposite aspect of the room seems to be like this…
I initially had this grand thought in my head that I’d be capable of pack all the things up good and neat into containers and retailer them someplace, after which roll my tables out of the room whereas I work on the entire flooring.
Properly, that’s ridiculous. I’m right down to this studio as my final room that must be completed, so there’s actually nowhere to retailer a complete bunch of containers exterior of this room. We use each single room in our home, and Matt can’t have a bunch of containers in his approach. After which there are the tables. These are 61 inches sq.. The one potential option to get them out of the room is thru the again French doorways and beneath the carport. However with the climate we’ve been having currently (thunderstorms, hail, twister warnings), I actually don’t need my two tables exterior, even when they’re beneath a carport.
So the one resolution I may provide you with was to do the ground in two components. I’ll do the aspect I’m engaged on now — sand, wooden fill, prime, and paint — and when it’s dry, I’ll cowl it with the protecting paper and transfer all the things to that aspect of the room and get began on the opposite aspect. Then when that aspect is finished, I can assemble my cupboards, put these into place, after which have precise locations to retailer these items whereas I end up the studio.
It’s not ultimate, however generally now we have to make do and create workarounds once we dwell in our DIY initiatives! 😀 And I’ve full confidence that it’ll work out in the long run.
As a aspect observe, I took the recommendation that lots of you gave me yesterday. My candy mother read my post yesterday and instantly texted me to say, “I’ll come enable you!” So she’s right here at the moment to assist me get my home again so as after final week. And as a number of of you instructed, I additionally moved the situation of our Wednesday gathering. For this week, we’ll be gathering at another person’s home, and that can give me extra time to get issues so as round right here. I went from stressed yesterday morning to feeling zero stress at the moment. 🙂 And that gave me the liberty to work on my studio yesterday as a substitute of stressing out about my home.
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